The French government, led by Emmanuel Macron, has presented a pension reform plan in the country, which envisages increasing the retirement age from the current 62 to 64 by 2030. This initiative has already caused discontent among representatives of local unions and may lead to mass strikes in the future. informs Bloomberg agency.
The government of Emmanuel Macron presented a plan to gradually raise the minimum retirement age in France from 62 to 64 in 2030, sparking anger among unions, who called for an immediate strike to protest the reform.
At the same time, pension reform in its current form is “brutal” for citizens of the republic, according to CFDT union president Laurent Berger. There is currently no good reason to raise the retirement age limit.
“Nothing threatens the pension system, nothing can justify such brutal reform,” Berger said.
January 10, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Is Born stated increasing the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. Changes to the pension system should come into effect by 2030 and are necessary to maintain it. At the same time, innovations will have to affect 2 million people living in the republic.